1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Meaningful pain is better than meaningless pleasure.

Alas for him who chafes at soothing ease,And cries for fever'd joys and pains to please:They please a moment, but the pleasure flies,And the rack'd soul, a prey to passion, dies.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Imposed dreams give us pleasure and supposed dreams give us happiness.

With access to a medicine cabinet full of palliatives, we can avoid introspection. We can delay coming to terms with our inevitable disintegration and avoid investigating the root causes of the spiritual dysfunction that causes our resultant discomfiture. We can medicate ourselves out of thinking beyond placating our immediate needs; we can remain fixated upon expeditiously enhancing our personal pleasure ride. Instead of thinking, all we need is a new prescription drug.

It is pressure that births diamonds, not pleasure.

It is pressure, not pleasure, that births diamonds.

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.

Traveling is one of the greatest pleasure and its gentle breeze is one of the greatest pleasant